Category Archives: Growing
OUTGROWING
Yesterday I came across this remnant of days gone by. A little hanger-on to what once was. And visions flashed through my mind of waking up to discover that the size 4T shirt that fit R-girl last Sunday was now creeping awkwardly up her belly button, or the shorts that were just the right amount of short [...]
Also posted in Kid Things, Noticing, Parenting, Remembering, Single-Momming, Thinking Tagged R-boy, R-girl, R-Kids 2 Comments
SOMETHING’S MISSING
Tonight I came home late to R-house, and guess what I found when I walked in the door. Empty couches. Everywhere I looked. So, ok, sure. This actually happens to me on a fairly regular basis. Every other weekend, in fact, when R-kids are off spending time with their dad. But most every other night [...]
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LOSING IT
Also posted in Hard Things, Healing, Heart Things, Noticing, Ranting, Thinking, Wise Things, Wondering Tagged Grief, Hope, Loss 5 Comments
NEW HEIGHTS
The other night, on the edge of the closet door in R-boy’s room (which used to be R-girl’s room), we discovered that R-girl is just a hair away from meeting her goal. Or one of her goals, that is: To be as tall as me (or taller), which is somewhere in the vicinity of 5’11″. [...]
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WRITING IT DOWN
Somewhere back toward the beginning of this blogging journey, I typed up a post about the specific kind of journal (and pen) that I was loving most at the time. Three years and six journals later, that opinion hasn’t changed. Although a lot of other things have. Particularly, the things filling those journals. Thank God. [...]
Also posted in Beautiful Things, Cool Things, Everyday Things, Finding, Hard Things, Healing, Heart Things, Noticing, Raving Tagged GROWTH, Journaling, life, Miss Sarah, Wisdom Leave a comment
GRACE, ALL AROUND
Wait. What day is it?? Isn’t it December twenty-something? Pardon? It’s January you say? But… But why does this calendar in my living room say… And why is that sparkly fake evergreen still here? Really? Wow. But I have four sheets of holiday stamps just waiting for those holiday envelopes to be addressed. You don’t [...]
Also posted in Chuckling, Heart Things, Inspiring, Thinking, Wise Things, Wording Tagged Christmas, GRACE, new year 1 Comment
UNCLEAR
This morning I stepped outside my door and found that the view from here is a little more murky than usual. Which, I’ll admit, can have a magical and enchanting quality to it until you find yourself hurtling down the road at the speed of an ever-changing life. Then, suddenly, what’s up ahead matters a [...]
OKAY
Just in case anyone needs to hear it. xo
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UNFINISHED
The painting that hangs in our living room, above the mail and the keys, is an unfinished watercolor that I found rolled up and buried deep in the basement of an estate sale. It had no frame and no name. It cost me about 25 cents. There were other paintings and sketches in the pile [...]
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WINGS